My Gorgeous Wife is an Ex-Convict!

Chapter 66

Grace was stunned. She had not been expecting the place where she met Jay to be the place where her father had passed away.

“I’m so sorry,” she said.

“He only had himself to blame for dying.” He shrugged. “Sister, there is no need for you to apologize,” Jason said in a low voice.

She suspected the story was not so simple as Jay depicted it. ‘He only had himself to blame?’ that sounded ominous. Grace was surprised. She hadn’t been expecting him to describe his father’s death that way.

“Jay, I’m not sure what you man by blaming him, perhaps it was some accident-”

“Was it? I don’t think so. He fell in love with someone he shouldn’t have fallen in love with, then when she discovered that he was useless, he was cast aside. It didn’t matter even if he kneeled down and begged. No,” Jason’s eyes darkened into an abyss. “No, that’s not entirely true. The more he groveled and begged, the more she despised him.” He shook his head as if clearing the thoughts. “In the end, he died in despair and had frozen to death in the snow.”

Jason’s expression was as indifferent as if he was just talking about something as ordinary as the weather-not a man succumbing to hypothermia and dying in it. Even his voice was

as calm as usual. But… this was his father!

to the first time

been distant then too.

she called out to him.

her face was reflected in his dark pupils. “Tell me,” he goaded her. “Did

respond. After

no expression on his face, but there was

knew the answer.

provide would be useless. There were some wounds in the world that only people who had actually experienced them could understand the pain.

up and hugged him as he stayed atop

chest, his nose was inhaling her breath, and her

her heartbeat came into his ears through her clothes.

made him feel like… staying

“Mom, don’t go…”

ground, hoping that the woman, who

on leaving and did not even

about to leave, the boy wanted to reach out and grab her.